Continually ask yourself this week, How is Jesus influencing each area of my life? He doesn’t just want access to fragments of your life you have tidied up. He wants to rule all of it. He stands at the door and knocks. Let him in so he can make himself at home.

Leave the starting blocks, this week, and enter the race that has been set before you. Travel light, leave behind anything that distracts and burdens you. Accept the pleasant and unpleasant experiences God allows to enter your life, knowing He will shape you by them. And make Jesus the object of your interest and affection. Relentlessly keep him in the front of your mind.